News

Call for Proposals for Greenberg Curatorial Fellowship Now Open

9.8.25

The Kemper Art Museum, part of the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, in conjunction with the Department of Art History and Archaeology in Arts & Sciences, is pleased to announce the 2026–2027 Arthur Greenberg Curatorial Fellowship.

PhD Candidate Hoyon Mephokee Receives a Mark S. Weil and Joan M. Hall Dissertation Grant

8.5.25

Hoyon used the grant to spend July 2025 conducting research in France.

PhD Alum Jen Padgett Featured in WashU Magazine As the Wingate Curator of Craft at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art

4.17.25

PhD Student Rayna Li Receives the Newman Exploration Travel Award

4.9.25

PhD student Rayna (Yihao) Li has been selected as one of two graduate students to receive the 2025 Newman Exploration Travel Award.

PhD Student Hannah Wier Publishes in the Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide Journal

4.2.25

PhD Student Hannah Wier recently published a review of Van Gogh: Poets & Lovers at the National Gallery, London, in the Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide journal

Indigenous Perspectives II: Museums, Stewardship, and Native American Art

3.26.25

On February 27, 2025, the Department of Art History & Archaeology and American Culture Studies presented Indigenous Perspectives II: Museums, Stewardship, and Native American Art. This was the second iteration of the Indigenous Perspectives panels, which grew out of collaborations within the Indigenous St Louis Working Group (funded by the Divided City initiative in the Center for the Humanities).

Dr. Mia Laufer (PhD 2019) Named Irene Leache Curator of European Art at the Chrysler Museum of Art

3.10.25

Following an extensive nationwide search, Laufer officially joined the Chrysler Museum on January 13, 2025.

PhD Student Katie DiDomenico Speaks at SLAM

2.19.25

As a part of SLAM’s University Day, PhD student Katie DiDomenico offers a talk at Gallery 338 about John Greenwood’s Sea Captains Carousing in Suriname.

PhD Student Hannah Wier Offers Gallery Talk at Kemper Art Museum

2.13.25

PhD student Hannah Wier joined Assistant Curator Dana Ostrander to lead a lively discussion on Reframing the 19th Century at the Kemper Art Museum.

Moving Stories in the Making: An Exhibition of Migration Narrative

2.28.24

The exhibition will demonstrate how stories can shift entrenched attitudes toward immigration and how art can foster connections between migrants and the communities in which they become a part.

Graduate Students Claire Lyman and Mary Sulavik join Dr. Aravecchia in Amheida this January

1.31.24

Department of Art History and Archaeology graduate students Claire Lyman and Mary Sulavik joined Dr. Nicola Aravecchia, Archaeological Director of the Amheida project, on a trip to the ancient site of Amheida in Egypt’s Dakhla Oasis.

PhD Candidate Jay Buchanan Will Be Presenting at the 2024 CAA Conference

1.29.24

Jay Buchanan will be presenting at the 2024 CAA conference. Jay’s paper, “Xiyadie's Gate: Antimonumentalizing Tian'anmen and Papercutting Queer Endurance” will conclude the "Queer Monuments" panel chaired by Blake Oetting (NYU-IFA) and Dr. Nick Morgan (Hampden-Sydney).